You Could Not Make It Up: Distorted view through the climate gates by Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, BBC

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Much has been written – not least on this website – and much more surely will be written over the coming months about supposed inconsistencies, errors, misjudgements and poor practice among climate scientists.

How many “scandals” do we now have with the suffix “-gate” attached to them? At least five, by my count, with the most embarrassing surely being the projection that the mighty Himalayan glaciers could largely be gone within a human generation.

The latest -gate – detailed in a series of articles in The Guardian by environment journalist Fred Pearce – concerns a set of temperature data from China that was used in a 1990 paper in Nature to estimate the likely impact of progressive urbanisation on temperatures recorded at weather stations.

Click source to read the latest and desperate attempt from Richard Black to support “Man Made Climate Change”

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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